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It's sabotage. From the OSS Simple Sabotage manual: - Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned - Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble - Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks

Excerpt from OSS Simple Sabotage manual: "General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creating Confusion

Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned.
Report imaginary spies or danger to the Gestapo or police.
Act stupid.
Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble. "

Excerpt from OSS Simple Sabotage manual: "Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks."

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Please let it go, friend. We all have better things to do than pick a fight online, especially with people who are clearly our allies.

Photo of Robin Williams face, with a quote attributed to him printed above that reads, "Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be Kind. Always."

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Right out of Simple Sabotage: - Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations - Act stupid - Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble Here, Ron Johnson sabotages Congressional oversight of the justice system

Screenshot from OSS Simple Sabotage manual, section 5.12, with the text: "General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creating Confusion. Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned. Report imaginary spies or danger to the Gestapo or police. Act stupid. Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble."

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It's from the Simple Sabotage manual: - Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned. - Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble. Here, Pam Bondi sabotages Congressional oversight of the DOJ.

Screenshot from OSS Simple Sabotage manual; the text is in the post.

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Straight out of the Simple Sabotage manual: - Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks. Here, Pam Bondi sabotages public oversight of her job performance.

Screenshot from OSS Simple Sabotage manual: "Straight out of the Simple Sabotage manual: "Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks."

tomprogers @tomprogers.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Simple Sabotage manual: - give nonsense answers - report made-up dangers - act stupid - be irritable and quarrelsome Here, Pam Bondi sabotages Congressional oversight of the DOJ.

Screenshot from OSS Simple Sabotage manual. "12. General Devices for Lower Morale and Creating Confusion. (A) Give length and incomprehensible explanations when questioned. (B) Report imaginary spies or danger to the Gestapo or police. (C) Act stupid. (D) Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble."

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Classic sabotage. This is right out of the OSS "Simple Sabotage," which was used against Hitler's Nazis: - Pretend that instructions are hard to understand - Snarl up administration in every possible way - Make mistakes or omit requested information - Misroute materials

Screenshot from OSS, the relevant substance of which is reflected in the text of this post (it is VERY tedious to transcribe from a bad PDF, please forgive me)

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Foreign oligarchs. At least, that's what I learned from TV:

Parody of opening title card from the TV show Law & Order, which reads: "Treason & Corruption. In the Trump Administration, the People are oppressed by two separate but equally important groups: foreign dictators, who purchase favorable policies to weaken America and enrich themselves; and domestic oligarchs, who undermine democratic institutions to maintain their political power and fortunes."

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If Ring's "Search Party" feature is so awesome, why hasn't Ring found Nancy Guthrie or the people who took her? I mean, the guy was captured on her doorbell camera, so we know he's not invisible.

Two frames of video captured from the doorbell camera of recently abducted Nancy Guthrie, showing a masked and armed individual at her door at night, moving a plant in front of the camera

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Don't forget the punchline: they'll take a mile.

Screenshot from the Empire Strikes Back, of Darth Vader saying "I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."

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Reminds me of that time a GOPer joked that bad weather is like rape: "If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it." The new pharaohs are going to have an utterly ghastly sense of humor that would make Hitler blush, and they'll be proud of it.

Screenshot of Dallas Morning News paper from 1990, of an article by Sam Attlesey recounting Clayton Williams joking to reporters that bad weather is like rape: "If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it."

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From the OSS "Simple Sabotage" field manual, previously used *against* the Nazis: "Pretend that instructions are hard to understand"

(4) Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly...

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tomprogers @tomprogers.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I received this email *while* I was reading your post From: Meta Horizon Subject: Please tell us your birthday

Screenshot of part of my email inbox, showing the sender as "Meta Horizon" and the subject "Please tell us your birthday"

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Being a fan of an artist who is on the right side of history is not a political act that helps the right side of history prevail. It's usually the opposite, because being a fan requires sending money to your oppressors, who always reinvest that money in building tighter manacles for you.

Why resist the system if you can game, watch Netflix, and distract yourself on social media platforms? Moreover, the system, via Al, knows better than you what you need next. The Amazon algorithms will give you recommendations. No need to think—not even to make your consumer choices or give con-sent. Technofascism does not need to force people or create fear. Dominated through pleasure and convenience

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tomprogers @tomprogers.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

The FBI has essentially always been led by a Republican, even when Democrats made the appointments. Here's a chart I made of every single day of the FBI's existence. That tiny blue spot was a temporary appointment. The FBI is a GOP organ.

Graphic of FBI Director's political affiliation over its history

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tomprogers @tomprogers.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

We have been herded down this path

"The great political transition of the past 50 years, driven by corporate marketing, has been a shift from addressing our problems collectively to addressing them individually. In other words, it has turned us from citizens into consumers. It’s not hard to see why we have been herded down this path. As citizens, joining together to demand political change, we are powerful. As consumers, we are almost powerless." quote by George Monbiot

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tomprogers @tomprogers.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I gotta stay away from liquor the next few days or I will succumb to the desire to necro every thread where I was mocked for saying that consumer biometric security is no protection against the courts. So instead I will share this, from a philosophy paper about technofascism:

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tomprogers @tomprogers.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Jeff Bezos' captive newspaper (WaPo) refused to publish this cartoon. John Roberts decided that money is speech, and that means only money speaks, and only money can speak.

Cartoon depicting Jeff Bezos, Soon Shiong, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg, along with Mickey Mouse, offering bags of money to, and prostrating themselves before, a massive statue of Donald Trump on a pedestal.

tomprogers @tomprogers.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Hijacking the courts is how they subjugated the justice system so they could install Trump. Now their conspiracy of kept judges is doing it again.

The message "Allison Riggs Won / Voters Decide Elections / Don't Toss Our Ballots", superimposed on a field of stickers that say "I voted"

tomprogers @tomprogers.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

These things are INTIMATELY connected If you let mafia types skate, they will use their wealth to secure power, and then they will use that power to raid the Treasury like the warmed-over bank-robbers they are, and that will destroy your free-lunch-for-kids program E.g.: Donald Trump in the USA

Screenshot of the Toronto Star's best-of page for November 21, 2024, with two articles circled in red. One reads, "Defence lawyers have argued that their clients may have acted 'technically' outside the rules -- but that's how the construction industry works." The other reads, "160,000 Ontario kids will get a chance to eat for free under new school food program"

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tomprogers @tomprogers.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The FBI has been run almost exclusively by Republicans since its conception Here is a chart I made last year showing every day of FBI history, color-coded by the party of its Director: red = R, blue = D, gray = Independent (Hoover is officially grey but was very much a Republican)

Calendar showing every day of the FBI's history, color-coded to show the Director's party affiliation. The earliest 40% are all grey (Independent), and the remaining 60% is all red (Republican), except for a very small blue splat that lasted 2 months 20 years ago